Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 30, 1912, Page 1

- THE BEMI Jl ILY 's"tlet? MINMESOTA HISTORICAL QCIETY, - VOLUME 10. NUMBER 2. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1912. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. MILLIONS OF GAME FISH DISTRIBUTED Pike, Trout and Bass Grown at State Hatchery are Planted in Op- en Waters, MINNOWS LIKE LIVER PULP Eat it at Rate of 200 Pounds a Week. Using About One Ton A Year. PIAN TO DESTROY CARP They Attack Eggs of Other Species During Spawning Season and Do Much Damage. St. Paul, Minn., April 30.—One hundred million wall-eyed pike zad four million brook trout will be dis- tributed throughout the lakes and streams of Minnesota this year to! preference for the Democratic presi-|At Detroit provide amusement for sportsmen The last of the trout are just leaving| the hatcheries and crews of men arc in the great north woods gathering pike spawn to be hurried to tune hatching tanks. Within sixty days the distribution will be finished and a record established of 396,573,700 small fish or “fry,” as commonly called, liberated in free waters witi- in seven years. This record probably is unequaled. In addition to the pike and troat, possibly a half-million bass will be planted this fall, when the season for gathering arrives. When the hot days come, when the asphalt begins to soften, the striets to bake and steam in the wake of the water wagon, and office men dream of lakes surrounded by pine trees and spruce and tamarack, it is expected the rush to the famous fishing haunts of the Gopher state will begin. Theve are 10,000 iakes in Minnesota, in some of which no white man has ever cast a line. Practically all of them teem with bass, pike, crappie, trout and muskallonge. In the northern part of the state, especially in dis- tricts where no lumbering has been done, are virgin lakes unequaled in | all the world for game fishing. Fish Eat Beef Liver. Planting approximately 400,000,- 000 fish fry, propagating them and caring for big game, has cost Minna- sota $755,232.64 during the past ten rs. Included in this sum, is the t of nine tons of beef liver, tac dinner de luxe of the wiggler just learning to swim. At the hatcheries, liver is ground to a pulp and fed at the rate of 200 pounds a week. A minnow takes to liver pulp like a Kkit- ten to milk. Hatching young fish from spawn and mothering them till they are large enough to forage for them- selves, is technical work. Troui spawn are obtained from shallow wa- ters where the mother trout has gouged out a hole in the sand aad gravel and deposited her eggs. The hole is carefully covered and the spawn left to be hatched by tepid waters and warmth from the earth. ‘The female trout will deposit from 1,000 to 1,500 eggs or spawn in a season. Gathered and taken to the hatchery, they will hatch in sixiy days with water at-a temperature of forty-eight degrees. For each degrec the water is colder, five days more ‘s needed. Thirty days after they be- gin to move about beef liver is fed and the long tanks, filled with run- ning water, show signs of activity. When the trout get to be an inch and a half in length, they are ready for transplanting to open waters, and are called “fingerlings.” In ¢30 ¥ears they grow to be small-sized fish, large enough to eat, and in three years ,they become full-grown. Pike Are Cannibals, The wall-eyed pike—which resem- ble bass and are just as palatable, are the cannibals of fishdom. When the pike fry get to be large enough to move about with ease, civil war he- gins and the rate of extermination is measured only by the gluttonous appetites of the combatants. When a young pike becomes hungry, he turns to his nearest companion and p:o- ceeds to eat him, taking a bite out of whichever part he first touches. Ac- tivity of men in charge of the hatch- ing tanks does not stop them, aud the only way to preserve the fry iu- tact, is to move them to open waters where there is opportunity for escape or free-and-easy room for uninter rupted fight. The female pike is the greatest producer of eggs or spawn of any game fish in America. Large pike (Continued on last page.) i the cause of Roosevelt, intends to tol- — POV VP00 OOOO® ® CURRENT EVENTS. C e P0G OOOOOOOG G Minneapolis Church Burns, Minneapolis, April 30.—Six fire men were injured, two of them seri- ously, and the lives of scores of oth ers endangered Sunday night in a fire that badly wrecked the First Unitarian church, Eighth street and Mary plage, Minneapolis, entailing a loss estimated at $20,000. The accident occurred to the fire men after the fire was practically extinguished, when part of the rouf fell in, smothering the fire fightars who were standing on the balcony floor inside the church. . Was Walking to Minneapolis. Shevlin, April 30.—The thirteen year old adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Rider of this city was found in a farm house between Ebre and Lengby at 4 a. m. Sunday mcrn- ing. The girl was but recently adopt- ed from the school for indigent cli.- dren at Owatonna and was appar: ly satisfied with her Shevlin Lom but on Wednesday of last week dis- appeared and was not found untii Between Wilson and Underwood. Atlanta, Ga., April 30.—Georg! dential nomination will be expressed by the voters tomorrow at a staie- wide primary to be held solely €ir that purpose. Later in the manth| the state convention will meet hov to ratify the choice. The contest between Woodrow Wilson and f): W. Underwood, with the odds- : parently favoring the New Jers:y governor. Factional lines have h»«: drawn into the contest. Wilson is| generally supported by the friends nf Senator Hoke Smith, while Tnd: M. Brown and Clark Howell are the leaders. . in the first degree Walker, with the McVays shortly before the shooting. Walker was later released. John McVay was tried last February and convicted and sentenced to death. An appeal has served to stay the sen tence. as was Perry PLAN FALL OF PENROSE. city tomorrow. There will be nomi- nated at this convention a candidate for auditor general, state treasurer and four congressmen-at-large. The convention will also elect twelve cel- egates and twelve alternates-at-larga to the national convention at Chica- go. Though this work will be moreis perfunctory, since the nominations and selections have been made in ad- vance, the convention neverthe'ess promises to be of great importance to the future of the Republican party in Pennsylvania. The Flinn-Van Valkenburg combine, which espoussd low up the notable victory scored in the recent primaries by capturing the state convention and making their control of the party unques- tioned. The ultimate aim of the anti-or- ganization faction is believed to V2 to capture the seat of United Staren Senator Boies Penrose for former | State Senator William Flinn of Pitts burgh, who espires to be the Repub-| lican leader of the state, and who, since the rout of the Penrose machine |in the recent primaries, appears to !¢ {in a fair way to realize his ambition. | {While the term of Senator Penrecsc does not expire until 1915, the coa | ing campaign will be of great i | portance to the Flinn plans as | the state senators to be elected fall are to vote on Senator Penros:'s| successor. i on Banknotes, The Germans have beaten us to it for sheer nerve in the advertising At New York... | Sunday. She said that she was wask R. H. BE. ing to Minneapolis. She was taken |Philadelphia . . L7112 2 to the office of Sheriff Anderson and{At Boston . <2 7.2 detained until an officer came yeu- R. H. E. terday to take her back to the schooy. | New York -0 5 3 At Washington . 2 3 0 - t Kansas City i Indianapolis At Minneapolis McVay Brothers Trial. X who is said to have besn|y BASEBALL The box score of Ameri- can Assoclation games will be posted on the Plonéer bulletin board, ocorner Fourth and Beltrami, each day as fast as they come in by telegraph. RESULTS ON MONDAY. National League. Cincinnati . .... No. game; rain. At Pittsburg .... Brooklyn . ..... No. game; rain. At Philadelphia . St. Louis ....... No. game; rain. At Chicago ..... Boston . No. game; rain. American League Chicago . ...... No. game; rain. Cleveland . ..... No. game; rain. - At St. Louis .... bus . “|Louisville . ............ wood is favored by the anti-Smitt:| st st paul faction, of which Governor Josepa Toledo; v o sinmimrn Pine Bluff, Ark., April 30.—-The|. " '‘pacrpary’ sTANDINGS. X case of Ed. and Cullen McVay, B charged with first degree murder in American Association. connection with the death of J. "V. Won Lost P.C. Etheridge, was called in the Jeffer Colwmbus . ...... 13 4 .65 son county circuit court today for Minneapolis . ...10 5 LG6T trial. The case has attracted Wide{moledo . L ...... 9 6 600 attention. Etheridge was shot down gt pan .. .. 7 563 in court while he was being tried 10| gancas City . . 8 560 the assassination two years ago of Milwaukee . 8 4929 Albert McVay. John, Ed. and Cullen | oyigyille . 8 429 McVay, brothers of Albert McVay, |Indianapolis . 13 133 twere arrested after the shooting of Etheridge and charged with murder| Games Sunday. At St. Paul—Louisville 5, St. Paui At Minneapolis—Minneapolis 11, Indianapolis 2. At Kansas City—Kansas City 11, Columbus 9. 3 At Milwaukee—Toledo. Postponea —rain, National League. Won Lost P.C. Roosevelt Men In Pennsylvania May|Cincinnati . ..... 9 3 150 Capture State Convention. New York ... . 8 3 RET D Boston . ........ 6 6 500 Harrisburg, Pa., April 30.—Repub- Chicago . ..... .. 5 6 455 lican leaders of Pqusylvania arr] St. Louis ........ 5 7 417 on every train toddy in anticipation|ppjjagelphia . ... 4 7 364 of the state convention which is to Brooklyn . ....... 4 7 364 meet in the Majestic theater in this Pittsburg . . 4 3 .33 Games Sunday. At Cincinnati—Cincinnati 3, Pitts- game. One motor firm printed an “‘ad” on a blank space on 100-mark notes, nd they can't stop ‘em. > S e e “DECKS JUST AFTER SHE WAS STRUCK BY THE \ N AT - o — S O e STEENTH BUCKET OF wATEQ_—I AN LOOKIN FOR MORE } (Copyright.) CLAIM MANY FOR TEDDY. .| Campaign Managers Say He Has 261 Out of 676 Delegates. ‘Washington, April 29.—Senator Dixon at the Roosevelt headquarters today said: “676 delegates to the Re- publican national convention have been elected up to date. Of these 261 are for Colonel Roosevelt; 103 for Mr. Taft; 36 for Senator La Follette; 10 for Senator Cummins; 112 are un- instructed, including 88 from New York state, and contests are pending in the cases of the remaining 154. PODODDIOS T OO QO EE ® Baseball practice Wednesday af- & @ ternoon. « R A R R R R RO ORORCY Where' Deeside Lost Out. Andrew Lang once complained that Deeside was not “literary,” founding his statement on the fact that he could not buy Dickens' novels there, —London Athenaeum. burgh 2. At Chicago-—St. Louis. —rain. No other games scheduled. Postponcd American League. E Won Lost 10 3 Chicago . .. Boston . .... Philadelphia . Washington . Cleveland . .. St. Louis Detroit . New York .237 167 "Games Sunday. . At Detroit—Chicago 9, Detroit #. At St. Louis—Cleveland. Post- poned—rain. No other games scheduled. ' |the Hokkado ASTOR LEFT BIG FORTUNE. | EXT R A /By Terms of Old Will, Eighty Per | ! Cent Goes to Son Vincent. | SWAMP HOUSE CLOSED. | By an order of Mayor Malzahn, ilc| house of ill fame located in the swamp about a mile west from the city hall, was closed by the police this afternoon. The house is within the city limits. The mayor left for Crookston this afternoon on a busi- ness trip. This action comes as a general sur- prise at this time for although the matter was brought up in a council meeting some time ago, by Mr. Haa- nah, it was allowed to lie dormant, | and the general impression appeared to be that the = matter had heen dropped. The swamp house has been operating for a long time and Lis| been considered a blot on the city. It is the first building that comes 1a sight to persons arriving on the Joc and Great Northern lines from the west. . Nine Hundred and Forty Drowned. Minneapolis, April 30.—(Spec:zl Pioneer wire service)—Steamer Tex- as, American owners and sailing witn {the Turkish flag, struck a mine at the entrance of Smyrne gulf and sank, drowning 940 persons. Fire damp caused an explosion in coal mine at Yuba, Japan. Two hundred and eighty- three entombed. The morgue ship Mackay-Benneit docked at Halifax this morning. Suit of the government against the Harvester trust was started iu St. Paul today. POPPPPOVOOPPPOO O © Band concert and dance city @ @ hall tonight. € POOOOOOOOOLOOOO®O®O ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF THE TITANICS SURVIVOBS IN THE LIFEBOATS AND SCENE ON HER ICEBERG, CRAWN FROM DESCRIPTIONS ¥Y 1HE New York, April 30.—Speculatics concerning the terms of the will of Colonel John Jacob Astor, who died in the Titanic, has become intens stand out: First, Colonel Astor made no wiil which is known of in this country at- ter his second marriage; second, whatever will he did leave and the terms of which are known to ouiy one-person, Lewis Cass Ledyard, wil' not make any appreciable difference in the financial standing of any of the persons concerned. The outstanding fact in the ques. tion of the Astor inheritance is thls: eighty per cent of the Astor estat is left as it was left to John Jacob As- tor by his father, William Astor to Vincent Astor. -~ The remaining twenty per cent goes to the other children. At pres- ent there is only ome other child Muriel, ten years old. Should there be an issue from the second wife this child will share the twenty per cent with Muriel, If the issue is a giri each will have ten per cent; if the is- sue is a boy, Muriel will receive loss than the boy. ‘With the terms of this bequest John Jacob Astor had nothing to do. They were made by his father, Wii- liam, and have been on file in the surrogate’s office for over forty years, but never before have been published ‘When William Astor died the es tate amounted to approximately $20,- 000,000. At the present time it amounts to probably about $75,009,- 000. Rhinebeck; N. Y., April 30.—The funeral of Colonel John Jacob Astor will be held at the church which ha built. The services will be private No date will be fixed until after 1}~ arrival of the body in New York. Halifax, N. S., April 30.—The fo!- lowing wireless message was recei red here today from Capt. Gardeau of the cable-ship Mackay-Bennett: “Delayed by bad weather. Wil not enter port until 9 a. m. Tucs- day.” Honor for French Delegates. New York, April 30.—Elaborate arrangements are being made for the banquet to be given in this city tu morrow night in honor of the dis- tinguished French delegation that has just arrived here with the bronze bust of “La France,” which is to be presented to the United States and to be placed at the base of the moau- ment to be dedicated mnext June to Samuel de Champlain, the French navigator and explorer. The delega- tion is headed by Gabriel Hanctauz, the noted historian, member of ths French Academy and former foreign minister. M. Jusserand, the Frenck ambassador at Washington, will at- tend the banquet and Attorney Geu- eral Wickersham will be present as the official representative of the gov- ernment. Montana Sunday Schools. Great Falls, Mont., April 30.— Many delegates and visitors came ta Great Falls today for the annual con- vention of the Montana State Sun- day School association. The program for the: gathering covers three days and . provides for numerous interest- ing and instructive features.. Tha lo- cal church societies: are entertaining In spite of many rumors, two facts| : 1 [CONFERENCE READY TOOPENTOMORROW Twenty-sixth Quadrennial Session of Methodists to Meet in Minneapolis. ASSEMBLE FOR FOUR WEEKS Scheduled to Elect Bishops, Retire Others and Act on Matters of General Policy. CHURCH SYSTEM MAY CHANGE Many Believe District Superintend- ents Are Not Needed and Office Be Abandoned. Minneapolis, Minn., April 30.—Ail preparations are completed for the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church which begins h=re tomorrow its twenty-sixth quadren- nial session as a delegated body. Throngs of delegates and visitors tc the conference are arriving in the city. - All nations, races and tongues are represented among the visitors. From Europe, Asia, Africa and South America have come men bringing greetings to the conference either as delegates or fraternal visitors. To- day the various committees were busy completing the arrangements for the gathering or putting the £nal touches to the reports that they will present to the conference. Bishop H. W. Warren of Denver, the senior bishop in point of service, will pre- side at the opening service tomorrow, The delegates are looking forward to the most interesting and import- ant conference the church has held in years. During the three or four weeks that the sessions will continue a vast amount of routine business will be transacted, old bishops wili be retired and their successors elect- ed, and various proposals calling for radical reforms in the methods ot church administration will be con- sidered and acted upon. The overshadowing question to come before the conferemce will be modification of the Episcopal form of government. Within the past two years the question has been debated at the annual conferences and by the laymen’s associations. Briefly stated the “insurgents” ask for four radicsi changes: the abolition of the office of district superintendent, formerly presiding elder, as now constituted; the election of bishops in sufficlent number to allow each bishop to have a term of resident office, about four years, in a district; restoration of the pastoral time limit, and rules for regulating the transfer of members. The clergymen and laymen who want a modification of the episcopacy point out that the conditions that re- quired the organization of the pres- ent system, which in the past has been most efficient, no longer exist. New conditions require the church leaders, or bishops, to be fami‘iar with the problems of the various conference districts, so as to connse! the clergymen and initiate method= of work. Nearly all of the church leaders concede that there is some foundation for this argument in fav- or of the proposed changes. At-the same time, it is pointed out, the gen- eral conference is a conservative body, and it is likely that very fuw of the proposed reforms will be adopt- ed. Want a Supreme Court. Another subject on which thers 15 a diversity: of sentiment is whetLer there shall be a supreme court of Methodism. _ It is pointed out that it is incongruous for the general con- ference to be both a legislative and judicial body. A commission has been working on the constitution of the proposed judicial tribunal since the general conference four years ago. The commission will report a plan for the proposed court to ister- pret the church law, the membership of the tribunal to consist of three bishops, six ministers and six ley- men. While the report of this eom- mission will be placed before the general conference, it is believed doubtful if action at this time wiil be taken to create such a court. There are to be four bishops eleci- ed to fill vacancies, although in this the general conference has the pow- er to increase the number of new bishops as circumstances may re- quire. Among those talked of most prominently are President Francis J. McConnell of DePauw University, Rev. Dr. David G. Downey, head of the Sunday school board; Rev. Lr. Homer C. Stuntz, co-ordinate secre- = (RSN M-~ - | - ] - |